Questionable theology

What in the $%^&^% is their problem? So, a person messes up badly, obviously misinformed or whatever. Finally like all of us, they die. And the religionistas want them – not to suffer for a million years – but to suffer FOREVER. What in the blazes is up with that???
Rjs

Any building whose structural integrity depends on everything remaining exactly as it’s always been, is not truly a structure, but merely an illusion. If the changing of a light switch plate here and there, or maintenance on a bathroom will cause the entire building to collapse, there is no actual structure to the building, it is merely illusory.

In the same way, a Christianity, or a belief system, whose structural integrity depends on beliefs always remaining exactly the same, without movement, growth, or development, is not a belief system, and certainly not Christianity, but merely an illusion. If one cannot question doctrines like biblical inerrancy, or eternal conscious torment, or even something as banal as the origins of “Satan,” without the entire structure collapsing, you have no structure.

To put it simply, all structures, all *true* structures, that is, ought to be able to handle deconstruction, without it resulting in a full collapse. Sadly, today’s brand of Christianity is not deconstructable, and the moving or changing of a single belief truly will result in the entire system’s fall. This is why we must allow certain old structures to fall, without attempting to reform them. Then, after their fall, we can sift through the rubble, and reclaim some of the artifacts the former, illusory structure had hijacked, but attempting to reform such structures can only result in you being buried by its fall.

It’s time to find a new and better way, and to allow the old to collapse.
Jeff Turner

INCLUSIONISM

… [S]ince I stopped preaching “accept Christ” and started several years ago to “accept your acceptance” I have seen a marked difference in the quality of disciple. I would not go back to the way I did it for 35 years for anything. People now actually want to share their faith
Don Keathley

Link to quantum

If you’re looking for the scientific (physical) answer, you can start a search using the info below. If you’re looking for the miraculous, the realm where Jesus healed the sick, raised the dead, walked on water, turned water into wine, fed the multitudes, etc., the answer includes knowing God. Quantum physics straddles the two ‘worlds’.

PARADOXES CAN BECOME FRIENDS !!
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The tools scientists have used to deal with paradoxes in the physical world can also be applied to gain important insight into various paradoxes in Scriptures. Difficulties that have plagued the Christian community for centuries are not only clarified when ‘seen’from the point of view of one living in a higher dimension, but those same difficulties also become the basis for strong proof of the supernatural inspiration of the Bible. This book [QG] will provide food for thought for any student of the Word, and will, no doubt, begin a new area of biblical research to which others can contribute.”
–David Rogstad, physicist
Jet Propulsion Laboratory

A SEAMLESS RELATIONSHIP
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In order to be faithful to the biblical worldview we must always maintain a strong differentiation between the Creator and the creation whilst affirming the seamless relationship between the Creator and His creation. Perhaps we could say that the energy of the Holy Spirit is the power source that excites and energizes these created strings that are themselves a manifestation of energy that exist within other dimensions.
Quantum Glory
The Science of Heaven Invading Earth
~ Phil Mason

EVER FIND YOURSELF STARING STRAIGHT INTO THE CREATIVE MIND OF GOD ?
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Thousands of scientists have spent countless millions of hours studying and postulating various theories about the world of quantum physics. Some of the most complex mathematical equations ever conceived by the human mind have been developed in an attempt to crack the mysteries of quantum mechanics. As the world’s greatest physicists and mathematicians have sought to plumb the depths of the mysteries of the quantum world, they have found themselves staring straight into the creative mind of God.
Quantum Glory
The Science of Heaven Invading Earth
~ Phil Mason

CREATED ENERGY
If string theory turns out to be an accurate representation of quantum reality, then the whole physical universe is actually a manifestation of energy at a sub-atomic level, all of which is created and sustained by the creative Word of God. But as we begin to speak of the entire universe consisting of energy it must be asserted that from a biblical perspective this is a created energy and not the actual energy of the Holy Spirit.
QUANTUM GLORY:
THE SCIENCE OF HEAVEN INVADING EARTH
~ PHIL MASON

Think again, and again!

If you say,
“I don’t know –
I don’t have all the answers,
Understand this:
You have just denied
The power of God
Residing within you
Not once, but twice.
And most emphatically too.

Do you really think
You can undo the damage
By simply saying
And meaning with your whole heart
That God is good
And His grace is sufficient
To pull you out of the mess
And heal you?

If so, you’d be
RIGHT !!

Scientists have performed experiments with atoms and their subatomic particles such as electrons. If you paid attention in school, you saw the diagram of an atom with the electron orbiting it like the earth orbits the sun. The interesting thing is that scientists have discovered that the electron that is shown orbiting the nucleus is not always there in particle form. It exists in a wave state (like a cloud, everywhere at once) until someone looks at it. When the scientist observes it, it suddenly appears as a dot (particle). What we all want to know, is, “How does it know someone is looking at it?” It obviously is responding to the observer’s interaction with it.
Annette Capps
Quantum Faith

“For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says.” Mark 11:23

Construction of truth triumphs over deconstructing error!

IS IT JUST ME ??? I have found that as I build truth into my life that is revealed by the Spirit and that revealed truth continually makes me free, that deconstruction of all that is false is automatic and it evaporates from my belief system. My whole theological world has been turned upside down the last 13 years and it has come from a construction of what is truth and not a deconstruction of what is false.
Don Keathley

Are you GOING TO be happy? WILL you be coming into joy? WHEN you REACH a foreseeable goal, WILL you BE just about ready to START to claim your joy?

WHEN ???

Paul and Silas, in prison, facing execution, were so joyful, doing the will of the Lord, THEY BEGAN SINGING !!!

S ▪ I ▪ N ▪ G ▪ I ▪ N ▪ G !!!!!!!

Such Was Their Joy !!

Labels are so destructive

I’m becoming more and more uncomfortable with the idea of “false teaching.”

It’s just a mostly meaningless term that we slap on anything we disagree with, or haven’t been studious enough to actually look into for ourselves. When we use it, we defile, in both our own eyes, and those who respect our opinion, ideas and thoughts that may be true, but that we were either too lazy, complacent, or fearful to actually look into. The thing is, though, if you take the time to familiarize yourself with an idea, even if you continue to disagree with it, you at least come away with a respect for it when you understand how it works, where it came from, and how it emerged. Like a person whose story you take the time to learn, ideas can be respected, even while being fully rejected. Of course, this does not work across the board, and sometimes the history of an idea only adds to our disdain for it, but most things Christians carelessly slap the label “false teaching” on, do not fall into that category.

When you place a label like that on an idea that is central to a person’s identity, you not only defile the idea itself, but the person, in your mind, and open the door for you finding justification for mistreating and disrespecting that person. And that is never ok.
Jeff Turner